[Healeys] Fwd: Healeys

WILLIAM B LAWRENCE ynotink at msn.com
Sun Jul 6 08:25:18 MDT 2014


By that definition the last real Healey was the Healey 100 prototype which was
miraculously converted to an Austin Healey overnight at the 1952 Earls Court
auto show.

Bill Lawrence

> From: p_cquinn at tpg.com.au
> To: healeyrik at gmail.com; healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:51:20 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd:  Healeys
>
> G'day
>
> Actually the first "real" Healey was built in late 1945 while the last
> "real" Healey was built in 1954. You blokes are referring to Austin-Healeys
> not Healeys.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Blue Mountains, Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> HealeyRick
> Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2014 10:47 PM
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] Fwd: Healeys
>
> Larry,
>
> You'd have to include the Frogeye Sprite as well.  Designed by Donald and
> Gerry it was totally original.  And Donald often said it was his favorite
> Healey.  Unless you don't consider the Sprite a "real" Healey.  In that
> case, we can have a whole other debate,
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Larry Varley <varley at cosmos.net.au> wrote:
>
> > I think it's time that the list had a healthy debate, and some fun. I
> > would propose that the only real Austin Healey was the BN1, designed
> > by Donald Healey and Gerry Coker. Everything after that was BMC, who
> > never made a decent car after the 50's, just using what they had to
> > keep producing the cars, that were for some part good ideas, but bad
> > design. The mini was a great idea, but mix the gearbox oil with the
> engine? Oh dear.
> > The BN2 with a extra gear in a much heavier gearbox that really added
> > no extra performance, then the 100-6 with that horribly heavy engine
> > and no more grunt. Why would anyone do that, and just ruin the balance of
> the car?
> > Ok after that they added the 12 port head to it, but the sixes at
> > their best are really ponderous in the steering department relative to
> > the BN1, which is a nibble well balance car. I'm going so far as to
> > use an alloy block in my BT7 to turn it back into a descend handling
> > car and restore the weight balance. BMC basically self destructed,
> > while the rest of the world moved forward, what a shame.
> > Cheers
> > Larry Varley
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